I remember reading that the mailbox locator got the database from the USPS over six years ago. I found the old blog post and the 15mb zip file with the data still works! http://payphonenews.com/news/2006/07/the-mailbox-project-us-mailbox-location-data-released.html
The fields in each spreadsheet are: LOCID BOX ADDRESS DESCRIPTION CITY STATE SERVICE CLASS BOX TYPE Area of Box Last M-F Time Last SAT Time Last HOL Time On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I think that since we don't have the current data, we can't comment on >> its quality. >> > > You can get it from usps.com, you just can't download it in bulk (*). > > It's useful to get the general location of the mailbox in order to search > around for it, but I wouldn't put it on a map as a node. > > (*) Without writing a script, which, frankly, would be pretty easy to > write. The US is under 4 million square miles in area. A search query > provides results in areas up to a 100 mile radius. A square which fits in > a circle with a 100 mile radius is 20,000 square miles in area. 4 million > divided by 20,000 is 200. Multiply by two to more than account for areas > which overlap oceans. So you could get the whole database in 400 queries. > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp
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